Yaacov David Shulman:
Writer, Editor, Translator
Mistikah V'shigaon (Bar Ilan Press, awaiting publication).
Translation of academic book on R. Nachman of Breslov by Prof. Zvi Mark of Bar Ilan University.
Translations:
Torah, Academics, Memoirs, History
R. Lau on Pirkei Avos, 3 Volumes (Artscroll Mesorah, Brooklyn, NY, 2006-07).
Three-volume translation of six-volume commentary on Ethics of the Fathers by Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of Israel.
Understanding the Tanya: Volume Three in the Definitive Commentary on a Classic Work of Kabbalah by the World's Foremost Authority Tanya (Josse-Bass, San Francisco, 2007).
Commentary of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz on Tanya.
Learning From the Tanya: Volume Two in the Definitive Commentary on the Moral and Mystical Teachings of a Classic Work of Kabbalah (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA 2005).
Commentary of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz on Tanya. I translated the second half of the book.
An Angel Among Men (Kol Mevaser Publications, Israel 2003).
A biography by Simcha Raz, translated by Moshe Lichtman. My translating contribution was noted in the acknowledgements as "commendable work on the formidable last three chapters."
Zichron Av (96 pp., Feldheim Publishers, Spring Valley, NY, 2002).
An ethical will from the early twentieth century by Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Grunwald, the son of the famous Rabbi Moshe ben Amram Grunwald, author of Arugas Habosem.
"A wonderfully translated work"-R. Cheskel Grunwald, grandson of the author.
The Chambers of the Palace: Teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (249 pp., Jason Aronson, Inc., Northvale, NJ, 1993).
Main Selection of The Jewish Book Club.
"For those seeking an entrance into the realm of Jewish spiritual and mystical teachings, there is no better guide than Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. Nor is there a better introduction to Rabbi Nachman's teachings than The Chambers of the Palace. In this beautifully translated work, Shulman has selected the essential teachings from a vast library of writings and organized them into 42 primary categories"-Howard Schwartz (Gabriel's Palace, Elijah's Violin, et al.), St. Louis-Post Dispatch.
"A scholarly, well-researched, well-written contribution to Judaic studies"-Wisconsin Bookwatch.
Pathway to Jerusalem: The Travel Letters of Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura (93 pp., CIS Publishers, Lakewood, NJ, 1991).
A translation of the vivid travel letters written by a major Torah scholar of the fifteenth century.
In Every Generation (Jason Aaronson, Inc., Northvale, NJ, 1998).
My work appeared in this anthology by Sidney Greenberg and Pamela Roth.
The World That Was: Poland (The Living Memorial, Cleveland, OH, 1997).
I translated two Holocaust remembrances for this textbook: "Fragment of a Holocaust Memoir" (by Rabbi Leib Geliebeter) and "A Child is Born in the Bunker" (by Bella Geliebter)
Experiencing the Divine: A Practical Jewish Primer (self-published, Baltimore, MD 2002).
Translation of a modern classic on meditative consciousness by R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira.
The Mirror and Other Hasidic Tales (self-published, Baltimore, MD 2002).
Translation of dozens of delightful tales from original Hebrew and Yiddish sources.
Wellspring of Compassion: Teachings of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook (self-published, Baltimore, MD 2000).
"Accurate and clear, forthright and poetic"-Howard Schwartz (Gabriel's Palace, Elijah's Violin, et al.).
Ein Dim'ah (awaiting publication).
A moving 60 page sketch of life during and following the Nazi reign, by Rabbi Yehoshua Grunwald, the rabbi of Chust, Hungary.
Memoirs of a Yiddish Actress (self-published, New York, NY 1993).
The memoirs of Cypora Glikson, a Yiddish actress who lived in Poland as a young woman when the Holocaust began.
"Yaacov David Shulman did a superb job in translating my mother's manuscript. His translation was authentic and extremely readable, and captured the exact sense and nuances of the original manuscript.
In addition, I would note that he is extremely 'interactive' and a pleasure to work with"-Dr. Jerry Glickson.
